Anyone have a recommended guide for Kubernetes?
Start here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/ Look at all the diagrams in the tutorials but don't bother with the interactive stuff.
Then learn the more detailed concepts here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/
Once you understand the lingo and the general idea of what the different functions are supposed to do, just copy some example deployments and try to get something of your own working.
Don’t do what I did: googling and going through random top hits. Most of these are 1-off blog articles that revolve around “install Helm and then do these 6 things” or “just kubectl apply random.link.com/some-script”.
Doing that just leads to tons of confusion and anger.
My recommendation: Suck it up and read through the official kubernetes docs. Their docs aren’t written in a way to easily explain core concepts unfortunately. However, slogging through it will give you some initial exposure to concepts and will let you know where to go back to later when your making mental connections.
Next, look for k8s tutorials from Digital Ocean and Linode. In my opinion, they’re the best written guides for demonstrating how to get from A to B.
You’ll start running through those guides and be referencing back to the official docs. Gradually bridges will form on your head and you’ll get an intermediate, functional level of competence.
If you grok all that, then you are ready to grok the K8s Container Runtime Interface. And, if you really grokked it, you understand that Docker is besides the point, isolation and namespaces are optional, and so forth. All k8s demands from the "container runtime" is that a thing has a name and a defined lifecycle.
Once you understand how k8s works at the pod and node level then it should be perfectly obvious how it works at higher levels. That's why I really want to see someone write the bottom-up guide!
Now I’m also more leaning towards the official docs as a recommendation, because they should always be more up to date... nevertheless, “Kubernetes: Up and Running” took my fear off this (at first) complex architecture. In the end, K8s is not that difficult to understand and the involved building blocks make sense, after you get the hang of it.
By the way, Microsoft is giving away “Kubernetes: Up and Running” second edition for free currently: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/kubernetes-up-an...
EDIT: Upon further investigation, I see that there's not much technical content provided here. So it goes. Thanks anyways.
This is exactly the kind of word salad approach to explaining k8s that I complained about in my other comment. All of the k8s tutorials are written by (or recorded by) people with no idea what they are talking about.